The Sun. — London, England, 1810-11-17 00:00:00

1. A general and particular statement of each army. 2. What number of men is necessary to complete• eaf• army, accorithig to the plan proposed. , • 3. What qn unity of arms, ammunition, and clothing is warned for each army. 4. What means have been taken to provide in whole or in part, for the said wants. 5. What number of ships of war the nation pos sesses, specifying the state in which they are. 6. Whitt -Thimber of shins it will be necessary to arm, mentioning their several classes. 7.. What naval stores are absolutely requisite at present. 8. •What number of seamen is wanting to man' out ships. •,g, What numbers are necessary to keep up the , ,armed force. The following is an extraet of a letter from a Genera: Officer in the British service to his friend in ,London " Cadecira, 36 miles from Lisbon, Q6l. z 6. `,` ;All our opinions .respeaing the probable con-, „sequences of the invasion of thii country have prov ed erroneous. With a very inferior army, at the ,beginning of the campaign, we kept close to Masse , na's array, which then consisted of 75,000111E11 ; end e'when he commenced Avis operations, after the stir -- sender of •Altrieida, we felt. back regulai.ly and slow :.ly, .never aoandoning him an inch of ground, until -the 'near approach of so overwhelming a force obli ged us, as a measure a.t prudence. . At this time the whole of out force did not exceed 25,•000 English, arid the Portuguese ; abut we were 'daily- approaching mar reinforcements, and concentrating the different ,corps of the army, which had ! been necessarily se parated to, attend to other points which had • been threatened. the ietla September, we occupied a posi :tion where. we. [pieta have fought with advantage, 'end Lieutenant-General Hill and NI Lelth would leave joined us the day after, with their' corps, amounting to thirteen 'Briesieregiments, and ; as many Portuguese, elearly -twenty thou•and neat). ery and two thousand cavalry. The enemy, how fver, appreciating the dangar of attacking us in such, .a position, where, (torn the nature of the country,. his lajge body of cavalry voold_ have been useless,. auddenly crossed the river Mondego, for the purpose Of marching upon Coimlke, and thereby - turning bur position. Lord Wellington was immediately aperiaed of this 'Movement, arid passing e • %lon dego on the 20th and 21st, cut in upon Massends - route;,, and took up a co:en:and:Mg positicre on the 'height'S of Busaco, by which .he cut off their im mediate or dirtia rold to tl-te above;olentioned city; which was twelve miles ie our year. " .03 the 25: h the advanced picquets of my divi- e "sion were warmly engaged the enemy, and their columns approached our position iteevery di reetion.' The . eteli was employed in preparations and ' combination', which convinced us of their in tention to attack oe the following morning ; and I 'had no doubt, born a variety of circumstances, that the extended pobt I occupied in the position would be else first and principal objeft of their attack. It proved so. The whole of their artillery and several heavy columns were brought to bear upon the pass of St. Autoetio de Alcantare -tit day-break ; and the attack was continued with great obstinacy on the diffeeent points of the line occupied, by my division until until twelve o'clock, when they desisted; after being . driven back on every occasion in great confusion and - welt greet loss. They were making their last effort, whera - Gee - eral Hill and General Leith's corps arriv ed ; and a brigade of General Leith's division con tributee to put au end to the •basineseof the day.— The Gazette will give you a detail Of the circume - stances; Allah I 'was tooernuch "'engaged in to' de scribe with any accuracy. The enemy several 'times penetrated the line occupied by my division, but -were al ways driven "back with the • ba) onet, and - compelled to disperse and save themselves by a pre cipitate flight: The part of my division engaged , - consisted only of three British and as many Portu guese regirrients, about 4000 ; and I may safely say, that we placed as many of the'enemy hors - de com bat. The enemy allow that • they lost, in kilted and wounded; orrthat ocea'sion, above eittool and in -that case, we have certainly not taken more than o'er share; for the whole of the real attack was upon the position-of the 3d - diviiien, and -the de ' monatrelons Upian the other points were merely feints. It isidifficult to do .justice to the courage 'and gallentry of the regiments engaged ; every man -fought a§il the safety and' lionourof his country had *been exclnsilvely confided to his single arm. I shall merely notice one aelion. The-line occupied by my division was very extensive, above a mile and a half; which enabled the enemy-to make distin4 and se -parate attacks on different points at the same time. . Having repelled the principal attack, against which -they brought'the whole of their artillery, I was 'gel loping to theother extremity, %%hick was at the' same time closely engaged, when' I found a column of the enemy had penetrated to the centre of my line, and had actually established themselves on a strong rocky point :which commanded every thing ,around. There was nothing - at hand ,but the light infantry companies IA two regiments, which had been dispersed and were retiring in' disorder. In this extremely critical situation; with the assistance of Major Smith, of the 45th, I rallied them with softie. difficulty, and after•a few words, led them to . a charge, from lehich I had but faint hopes of suc cess.' Major Smith fell, like a' tree hero, on the summit elate rock, in the moment of vietory ; and - we completely succeeded in dislodging thein ; and - with theetssistanceiof a Portuguese regiment which _arrived! at ;tile met:tent, we' dispersed them ; • and drove them across the ravine with great slaughter. " We expevied that the enemy would have re hewed his e ettack on the following day ; but it ap peared that he had already got a surfeit. He de camped on the 28th, at night, and attempted to reach CQl.7lbra by a cirCuitous route; but Lord ,aware of this movement, cut in by a More direet eoad; and remitted it before him, which we did earlyOn elle 30th f but it afforded no advan= to genus position--we successively fell back to this poSition, Where Massena may tight us whenever he pleases.. We haveeretritrtted above 200 miles %t ith toe greateet regulirity ahit good order; and the at . - . . /. s my is now in high spirits, health, and excellent or der, with every prosped of beim , able to defeat the views cf the enemy, at ki,t fur this campaign.-- The army. of is in a most iniserat - ,le situa tion. It has not had bread for more than a fort night•, and its other resources of subsistence begin to. fait ; and the desertion is, in consequence, very czr6at. " Upon the whole, our prospeas are rather flat tering. The only resource of Massena now is, to ihrOw - himself into the Alrntejo, where he may find some resources, and open a communication with Spain. His communications on all sides arecoin rletely cur off, and all his sick and wounded hare fallen into our hands." GIBRALTAR, OCT 7. " A fever, similar to the one which prevailed in this 7arrison in the year 1804, has again broke out at Carthagena; and three Eng Hill transports, which have arrived in this Bay from Carthagena have all got the disease on board. One of them, with eighty .German deserters from the. French army, has had upwards of halt of them taken ill within these three last days. Those who have died, have all had the black vomit. They are k,-!pt in rigid quarantine, and every precaution is taking to prevent the introduc tion of this dreadful pestilence a second time within the walls of this garrison. The Rodney arrived yes terday from Cadiz, with , a Spanish line of battle ship in tow, bound. to Minorca. - The IJllke'ol ORLEANS passed this yesterday, in a Spanish trigate, bound to Sicily."• • • GIBRA . LTAR, Ocr. 8.---The accounts received - yesterday from Caribagena of the progress of the fe vet there, were of so alarming a t,ature, upwards of GO dying and many fugitives having made their. escape to different parts of the coast, that it :has-been deemed prudent, for the safety of the gar rison, to . order all communication to be cut off with Spain, by land or sea, from - this day. Eleven men died yesterday on board one Of the transports in the Bay, and forty more are dangerously ill. The mas ter of a vessel which arrived yesterday from Sicily states, that 4000 of the enemy had passed the Streights of Messina 'during a dark night, and ef feacd a, ianding near the town, but were soon at ta,:ked by a superior British force; which compelled them to re-embark, .with the loss- of 1200 killed and . wounded, and 300, who surrendered. • MAILS. ARRIVED-2. Dublin. Du --'x Malts, 3 Watertord. ' I' It I C E sTochs THIS DAY AT. TWSLVL • D I CLOCK. rODSOIS - 67 g a ; omnium - 4 THE SUN. SOLENT QUIS UICIRE lALSUM AUDEAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1810. '6 Windsor Castle, Nov. t 6, iSto, His MAJESTY has a little increase of fever this evening. " H. R. REYNOLDS. " H. ['ALFORD. te W. HEBERDEN. ti M. BAILLIE. " R. WILLIS." , Windsor Castle, Nov. 17. " His MAJESTY has had a restless night, and has, upon the whole, been more feverish for the last two days. _ _ " H. R. REYN OLD 3. " H. HALFORD. " W. HEBERDEN. " M. BAILLIE. " R. WILLIS." ...Last ;light -Moniteurs to the loth inst. reached town. They preserve a most profound silence re speCting the state of affairs in Spain and Portugal. We have extraCted the few articles of intelligence they contain. By private letters from Cadiz, received this day, we learn that the authority of the Regency is wholly at an end, and that a more vigorous and effe6live Government is likely to take place, as soon as it can be formed and digested. We are happy in the opportunity of assuring our Readers, that the fever which has for some time been prevalent at Cadiz, though of the same nature as that which took place there in 1800, is much milder in its symptoms, and from the. ap, proachina cold, weather, and judicious •treatment, ,there is every reason to believe that it will very soon be entirely subdued. It is with much pleasure we add, that it has not been communicated to the British Troops. This morning we received Cadiz Papers to the 2d inst. The following are their principal contents : PORTO, OCT. 29.—We have many reports here. The enemy are, no doubt, retreating via Coimbra, at which place we have goon militia, and batterieS thrown up. TORTOSA, SEPT. 23.,—They write froth Cartuga de-Escalei Dei, that, part of the division of Baron LABANS had passed the Ebro at filbanova at a short distance from Felix, and attacked 300 French, which were in that. place, killed 50 of them, and made the remainder, with their Commandant, prisoners, with whom they plt3ed to Cartuga, where they left the said Commandant in consequonce of the wounds he received in the action.—(Cadiz, Com mc-cial Gazelle, Oct. 26 ) CADIZ, OCT. '3o.—We know that an expedition, which sailed front ,the coast of Naples in three divi sions for Sicily, has met with that fate which al ways attends French mariime expeditions. The first division was afraid to land, the second could not accomplish it, and the third, which obstinately per siiied in disembarking, was routed, and the ships which conveyed it taken. CADIZ, Ocr. 30.--The head-quarters of General CAPON'S division were on the 25th in Castillegos it consists of 3,000 infantry and 400 cavalry. BA L LE6TE u()s had his on the 20th in Araceua, where Ge neral BUTItON with 800 horse had joined him, his ,advanced posts were within sight of Chassaro, five leagues distant from Seville. AREMBERG occupies Moguer, La Luz, Bolluvas, and Bonares, with 1400 infantry, 500- horse, six pieces of artillery, and two howitzers. • CADIZ, Oc•r. 26.—The army of Valencia and Arragot► are to move towards Tortola to assist that place - , the siege of which is carried nn with the greatest vigour. The army of General BLAKE remains in its former positions ; the enemy has united towards Granada, and have in Beza from 8 . to goo men. The expedition that sailed for the Coast of Malaga, has not been successful.' It disembarked at Malaga, and was received by 400UFrench trcops, to whom the greater ,part of the foreigners who lately passed from tt e enemy's army, and enlisted under the Spanish and English colours, deserted. The regiment of infantry of Toledo sustained a very brisk fire, and covered are retreat and cm-, barkation of the remainder of the.forces. Our loss consists of 490 [l'm, and the English Commander of the expedition was wounded and taken prisoner.' Such are the particular accounts which We have re ceived respeCting this unfortunate expedition ; they will teach us what we have to„ expeet from men who have once abandoned their colours. On the 7th inst. entered Albacete, 20 French de serters, with three ammunition in - aggons,.and more than 200, prisoners, take❑ by Don JVAN AIARTIN (el Etnpecimido.), This valiant patriot has frustrated the journey which it was said JUSEPIi wor►id take from Guadalaxara to -Valencia ; the truth is that he returned in great haste to Madrid, where he arrived on the 20th. ' MADRID OCT. s.—Letters from Salamanca in form us that diseases of the soldiers of MASSENA have been caught by the inhabitants, in consequence of which the mortality in that unhappy country is very great, in which this circumstance as well as many more, will ever perpetuate the memory of their visitors ; :the Marquis of VALDECAZZANZ is since dead of the epedemic disease. They write from Me Tina del Campo, on the i 6th September, that 700 prisoners belonging to the garri son of Almeida have passed through the former place, and that the skirmishing parties in Castilo daily aug mented. • They write - frOm France that it was rumoured there, that the King of Prussia was dead. Concern ing the King of Sweden, reports arc various ; some say that his abdication was talked of and that BER NADOTTE having before renounced the Roman Ca tholic, and embraced the reformed religion, would immediately succeed him. It was likewise reported ,that CHARLES XIII. has beeri poisoned, as well as the Prince of AUGUSTENBURGH,. and that there are reasons to believe that the sane fate awaits the Prince and Princess of OLDENBURGH, and the Emperor ALEXANDER. . . . The following are some further Extraas from the Portuguese Papers, which we received by the Lisbon Mail yesterday : LISBON, OCT. 31,--We know nothing positive relative to the movements of the armies: It appears; that the enemy have attempted to pass, the Tagus in different places, but every where those who hive endeavoured it, have met with their destru&ion. The prudential and effe6tual precautions which have been taken here, frustrated all the plans of the enemy. . Yesterday several corps of English troops recently marched to join the army. CATALONIA, OCT. I.—General O'DONNEL has transmitted to the Provincial Co i ngr . ess, a .dispatch from the . Marquis de C'AzdrbSi;to the loliow ing purport : " MOST EXORLLENT SIB, . . "In compliance with the commands of your Ex caency, and notwithstanding the enemy had re ceived intimation that a 'division was advancing to attack him in Pingurda, I succeeded by the rapidity of my marches in coming up with him at seven in the morning, at the distance of a league and a half from that town, and 'by eleven the , enemy was en tirely defeated ; and driven .. from all his positions by the division under my command. This f° rce; ta a the number of two thousand men, Which 11'14 boasted but the day before that they vgiud, wait for me in the strong position o f gurda, fled in complete disorder. Their 013 e rf on which they principally relied, fell all into °o hands, as did a considerable number of pri"' llersi but the -number of the killed and %your ded much greater. • tlal e I 'l will communicate the particulars, 1, irf and circumstances shall more conveniently - P O-rb o In the mean time I can assure you that the but division behaved as bravely as lour ExcelleneY desire. The soldiers loaded themsehes with Spoil:, and took arms and ammunition of every . kind. 0 , REUS,SEPT. 20.—The folloWing krench pr °T; ers have entered Tarr:long :--General i Ct'S 2 Colonels, 44 Wiccrs, 1800 soldiers, A n r e . c of artillery, 2 standards, a ba n d o f military' 6105 :: There The haVe been also brought in there several 'lli' Y tar" chests, 100. horses, 16,000 d o llars, arui m 3° other valuable etfeels. On the seine clay, ar rived ; at from the Banks of the Elbe 283 soldiers, and e't , " Officers, likewise prisoners. to g The French army has its communicatiorr tt , e on every side, while we are able to throw WO - place the necessary succours. • r 'of LIiBONT, Nov. 2.—The accounts.frorn all N J ' Spain are interesting, not only from the hapPY re ; sults of the determinations of the Cortes and of to Provincial Congress of Catalonia, but from the great and continual losses which the enemy sutler. C'lc yr lonia presents an instrudive• example to 011 °lv ( Provinces of what may be done by persev er . °l d " , and what successful exertions may be made fence of the just cause in Wilich we are enrage d ' e j . With respe6l to our armies, we are not loW•ir'. of . any new interesting occurrence. • - 'Ol SIM ter A, OCT. 1 t .—They write from Eletrey of the date of the 3d inst. that BL A KE is at theb Od to 30,000 men in that vicinity, and tilat, by ac c°l3 lately received from Ca valonia, we are assured 01 t lO defeat of tlie French army under MAGDoNAIt b e t o Great and numerous reinforcements coot ul l6i arrive from England. There are already il l t t „ lde s port of this chy, twelve shins cf the line, o f th?se.that. are expeeled, y:t.- . .t , ...rday a regittO infantry (the 65th) landed, and a regiment of c;c 3ir: ' , and two more of infantry are likewise expeeted.. cl:e t A Gentleman who came by the last Cadiz 1/ 5 0 is arrived in town. He -states, that before i le s l a• that city the Hero Spanish man_of war, with 3 N le' nish frigate; .had arrived at that port trout diterrAnean, with Deputies from Catalonia " n c ...i;'l3'i other provinces of the eastern part of the J'etifo`'o that the accounts from Valedcia and C,itaioni: os eci tery satiita(itory—and,that at Cadiz it was suP,,',,dilt SoUI-T and VICTOR would raise the s:vze of ‘-', 1. ` 10 . , in.order, if possible, to succour the atruY Cl l SENA. • „ (10 , . The King of SWEDEN, we understand, is w el) means in good health, but as he 'has been 30 11 " put harassed by hope and fear in his endeavours t° d himself under British protection, and ha; inde o 5 io too much reason to apprehend that his life danger from the emissaries of France, it is 11° ...„. of prising to find that he is indisposed. Tile freedom and security, however, which I le o ' rc liai breathe in this country, and the general and tlo ° respe& of its inhabitants, will, doubtless, av best effect upon his health and spirits. '- ja Mrs. BATHURST, who lately visited Pa ris lo 4 order to explore the fate of her husband, ne e 60' 60' every possible attention and courtesy from 13ti R yerf PART and - the new Empress. We regret, bow-troce to say, that Mrs. BATHLIRST was tanable t ° any further particulars than have hitherto bee n " ati o' to the public respecting the mysterious event i ll ' tton. The present Empress of France, if she 111 , 3 l far styled so while JOSEPHINE is alive, is Certa itil ,, , l e d advanced in pregnancy. This faa we are assu',os from a person who lately left Paris. Buot 4 A v ' tD ero and his dame seem to be very comfortable tcg,,tic-e, and whatever fury his poblic measures 'ma)" 6 , 1 0 0 it is said that there is a considerable a bateru' rs ," the sternness and ferocity of his private rnao lle- ec ii , Major-General NIGHTINGALE embarks i illa LtO' ately at Portsmouth for Portugal, to take t he r :i C' mand vacant by the death of Brigadi.er-Ge riel- CRAWFUED. ,„ ;,berv' tr The C,ortes have decreed the political the . Press, by a _majority of 70 to 32 voices" If these 32, nine only voted against the ini 7 l ,o ll aloption of the project; the other•articleS ol ` s . were afterwards discussed and approved. INDIA-HOUSE.—Yesterday a Court of P ir n e l l 'it° was held, vvhen . Copt. W. .13.6-NEs was sv4 .° ,- . , r- e itrii the command of the ship Marchioness 0 ./ consigned to Helena and Bengal. t - ali The Curacao ftigate, Capt. Towitas, 'ha s La Venus French privateer, and carried 11 1.; ere Plymouth. La Venus is the vessel that lat h e : l s . llC' gaged the Princess Charlotte packet, in lion she had I g men killed and wounded. 0 4 5 .. . The decision of the HIGH CoLIAT , of •DO E , G , s e l ° l in laEt..D, after a farther hearing of the: i ' Lady CLoNCUARY and her husband, on Friu d ( ! i ii ol gih inst. affirmed the decree of the Eccle 9 '" t oro Court, which divorced the parties, a masa ' e t to t , A young woman, servant to a publican in Al : it;el street, jumped froin a second-floor windox) t.f; t o in height, on Thursday night, and walle=d avoid,being taken, for having stolen and f: e. " • ring, the propetty of her :water. PL 13 .eaVi 114 t \lffel Ju mp tuna! 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